Audiences appreciate the growing trend seen in films like Our Gorongosa that feature a local conservation as the main storyteller.

“Our Gorongosa” to be shown at the Smithsonian Earth Optimism Festival in Cambridge, England
March 23, 2021-Celebrity speakers, leading conservationists, and youth leaders are coming together to deliver stories of hope for our natural world in a free, open-to-all virtual event running from the 26 March to 4 April 2021.

2021 UN World Wildlife Day Film Showcase Winners announced
Geneva/Jackson Hole, WY/New York (March 3, 2021) - Backyard Wilderness wins best "People and Forests" long form documentary at Jackson Wild's 2021 World Wildlife Day Film Showcase.
"The Serengeti Rules" is a great film to take you to parts of the world far beyond your couch.
Variety's Clayton Davis predicts that OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE will be a contender for a feature doc Oscar nomination.

Tribeca Talks At Home: OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE and AWAKENINGS
Tribeca Talks At Home, Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber Celebrate The 30th Anniversary of “AWAKENINGS” With a Double Feature Screening of “AWAKENINGS” and the New Documentary, “OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE.” Join Oscar® Winner Robert De Niro. Producer Walter Parkes, Oliver Sacks’ Editor Kate Edgar and Documentary Filmmaker Ric Burns for a Conversation About Both Films and Sacks’ Life and Work on December 28, 2020 at 1 p.m. EST.
BBC Two and CNN Films have partnered to commission hour-long documentary special “Vaccine: The Inside Story,” to be produced and directed by award-winning British filmmaker and former virologist Catherine Gale.
Race For The Vaccine
As news of the coronavirus broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: to create a vaccine against a virus no one had ever seen before, and to do so in record time, during a deadly, global pandemic.
The film, which will be known as Race For The Vaccine in the US and has the working title of Vaccine: The Inside Story in the UK is being produced by Wingspan Productions and Global Health Reporting Center, in association with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, and set to debut in spring next year.
...since establishing Tangled Bank Studios in 2012, and executive producing such acclaimed films as the Emmy winning The Serengeti Rules and Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, [Sean B. Carroll] has made a point of tackling the big subjects such as climate change, vaccines and mass extinction with an aim to inspire and educate rather than elicit fear and hopelessness.